President Donald Trump’s decision to stop all Ukrainian US assistance is a bitter blast – not only for Kyiv but also European allies existing in the US administration.
This is not the first time the US holds military help. Congress Republicans previously blocked – President Joe Biden’s largest help for Ukraine in the summer of 2023.
Then, Ukraine is about to be able to withdraw stocks of ammunition with European help.
Congress has finally approved the £ 60bn aid spring package by 2024. Only in time – Ukraine struggles with a renewed Russian offensive in Khussian. The arrival of delayed US weapons helped flow in water.
Like 2024, it can be months before the effects of cutting US help feel – even in terms of bullets and hardware. European countries slowly target their making of artillery shells. Total Europe now gives Ukraine with 60 percent of this help – more than US.
However US military support is still important in Ukraine. A western officer who recently described this “The Cream” in terms of weapons.
Ukraine’s ability to protect humans and cities relied on sophisticated US air defense systems – such as Patriot and Norway batteries – equally developed in Norway.
The US gives Ukraine ability to bring long strikes – with Ihars and atacm missiles. The US limits their use within Russia, but it is still important to hit high amounts of value within occupied territories.
It’s not just a quality, but too much. As the most powerful military in the world, it gets hundreds of excess spikes and armored vehicles – numbers smaller European armies that do not match.
Losing some of this help can take time to filter until the front. But there is an extremely worrisome effect, not least in terms of sharing intelligence.
No country can be equal to US in terms of surveillance in space-based surveillance, grouping and intelligence and communication communication. And it is not only given to the US military, but commercial companies also.
Take Starlink to Satell to Satellink to Elon Musk. Each Ukrainian position I visited the frontline has a starlink dish.
It is used to change the latest information in the battlefield. They are important to artillery ordinary and drone attacks.
Previously, the Pentagon admits it funded this line. Elon Musk was given an important form of the US administration, as he could never be prepared now to walk the bill. He is also a cruel critic of Ukrainian president Volyonmyr Zelensky.
Will the US prevent European European countries from shipping their US-made goods to Ukraine? If Europe wants to give us-made F-16 Jets in Ukraine, first need to receive Washington approval.
And what about taking care of US supplies? The US also trains Ukraine forces and then help them keep the goods we give.
The bid-banned bid restraints work in Ukraine until the end of his term. F-16 Jets in particularly necessary engineers and residues to continue to run.
Trump’s decision to stop aid can, in most of Ukraine and beyond, as if petulant. But there is also a political purpose as well as forcing them to negotiate the table easily.
The hope of European allies is that it is just a stop. If we do not have US support, Ukraine will find that even the more struggling for survival.
